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June 23, 2015

It took Taylor Swift (pictured) less than 24 hours to make technology giant Apple Inc. back down.

In the wake of a stinging rebuke from the pop singer, Apple made a rare public about-face on its earlier decision not to pay royalties for songs played on its new streaming-music service during a three-month free trial.

Swift penned an open letter on Tumblr, calling the policy “shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company.

April 22, 2015

Country music star Willie Nelson (pictured), long a marijuana user, announced plans Monday to roll out his own brand of pot.

The move makes the 81-year-old "Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die" singer the latest celebrity to jump into the marijuana marketplace.

"Willie's Reserve" will be grown and sold in Colorado and Washington, where recreational pot is legal. Nelson said in a statement that he's "looking forward to working with the best growers in Colorado and Washington to make sure our product is the best on the market."

January 14, 2015

Two of Elvis Presley's private jets are up for auction after spending three decades on display at the Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee.

The Lisa Marie, shown above, is a Convair 880 formerly operated by Delta Air Lines. The 880 was built to compete with the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 by being smaller and faster.

The ‘smaller, faster’ airliner concept did not catch on. Although the it was a good plane, only 65 Convair 880’s were built.

The last flight the Lisa Marie was when it transported Priscilla Presley and Elvis’s good friend George Hamilton from California to his funeral. The plane took them back to California after the funeral then returned to Memphis and was never flown again.

The Hound Dog2 is a Lockheed JetStar similar to the one in the photo below. The JetStar could accommodate ten passengers plus the crew. The Hound Dog2 was sometimes used by Elvis Presley’s manager Colonial Tom Parker to set up concert engagements.

Since the planes are not airworthy, they're really just celebrity memorabilia. They would need to be dismantled for a move of any distance.

January 08, 2015

On Thursday January 8,2015 Elvis Presley would have been 80 years old.

Above are two pictures of Elvis. The picture on the right has been 'aged’ to show what one person thinks Elvis would look like on his 80th Birthday.

We happen to think Elvis would look much older based on his heavy prescription use. One can’t take Dilaudid, Percodan, Placidyl, Dexedrine, Biphetamine, Tiunal, Desbutal, Escatrol, Amytal, Quaaludes, Carbrital, Seconal, Methadone, and Ritalin on a somewhat regular basis and survive to the age of 80 much less look that healthy at 80.

Elvis was said to have had near-fatal overdoses at least twice in the seventies and was admitted to hospitals for exhaustion (detoxification).

The grueling schedule of one show every other day from 1969 until June 1977 and a three-album-a-year schedule for RCA was more than Elvis could handle without abusing prescription drugs.

He would take uppers to get him on stage. After the show he insisted that his cast stay up most of the night singing with him until his downers took effect.
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January 01, 2015

A report at the link below says North Korea’s leader has sent a rare conciliatory signal on Thursday, offering “highest-level talks” with his counterparts in the South.

North Korea’s ‘boy king’ Kim Jong-un

Kim Jong-un, who inherited the leadership of Communist North Korea in 2011, delivered a televised New Year message uncharacteristically devoid of threats and boasting.

In the past, North Korea has promised variously to turn Seoul into a “sea of fire”, destroy its neighbor with “merciless strikes” and launch nuclear weapons at America. Last month, North Korea compared President Barack Obama to a “monkey” and threatened to attack the White House, the Pentagon and the entire “cesspool of terrorism” known as the “US mainland”.

Now Mr. Kim seems to be holding out an olive branch during his latest public appearance. He promised to “make every effort to advance dialogue and negotiations", adding that the "tragic" division of the Korean peninsula should be healed.

However, the “boy king” set a precondition by saying that America and South Korea must halt joint military exercises before any talks.
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